Word: prowess
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...humanizing process, Charles Boyer developed his part of the self-continued husband who had no purpose in life other than proving his prowess of seduction into that of a warm, likeable person. His interest in Janet Spencer, a spinster who had retreated to an aesthetic world, arose from an intellectual affinity he had never found in his invalid, self-pitying wife. Miss Spencer poisoned the wife assuming that she thus freed the husband for herself. It actually freed him to marry an eighteen year old girl with whom he had been having an affair...
Candidates for berths on the Varsity baseball squad flashed their potential prowess for cameramen and series yesterday in Briggs Cage at the initial meeting of aspirants for the '48 nine...
Rough and frequent outbursts of temper, a goal apiece for Eliot's Fred Ecker. Bert Van Ingen, and George O'Neill, and a crowded penalty box marked the fracas. As for the hockey prowess displayed, it was dubbed "not particularly brilliant" by unanimous consent of both teams...
...Coulter to service. Although shaky in his first couple of starts, Coulter started to display his 1947 form against the Cadets, as he and Bill Allen were instrumental, to say the least, in breaking up the Cadet attack. But on the basis of Johnny Chase's recent displays of prowess, Harvard would not need any defensemen at all as long as this young goalie fills the nets. Using the "fielding average" system by which his namesake and coach picks starting goalies, Chase will be on the ice for the face-off against B.U. at seven o'clock tonight...
...present sextet is poisoned by the same disease. High-speed schuss artists prove nothing but diletantes in cross-country, slalom, and jumping competition, cancelling their occasional heights of prowess with quick demises in less practised events. The sun has yet to rise on a Crimson sextet which can boast more than two hustling hickories in each event...